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Bail’s a given, until proven otherwiseThe Supreme Court has expressed serious reservations about denying bail in the Delhi riots conspiracy case. A two-judge bench emphasized th...- Six inmates, including one convict, escape from Tripura jailSix inmates escaped from a Tripura sub-jail. Five undertrial prisoners and one convicted person fled. They attacked a guard with sharp weap...
- No plan to amend law to give voting rights to undertrials: Govt in RSIn his written reply, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of section 62(5) of the Representation ...
- Centre urges states, UTs to enforce Section 479 of BNSS for undertrial prisoners' reliefThe Central government has urged all states and Union Territories to implement Section 479 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 ...
- BNSS Sec 479 to apply with retrospective effect: Govt to Supreme CourtThe Centre told the Supreme Court that Section 479 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, will be retrospective. This allows firs...
- High Court denies bail to promoter of Cox and Kings in money laundering caseIn his plea, Kerkar had said that he had been incarcerated for two years and 340 days which is almost three years, the minimum sentence he ...
- Prisoners' voting rights: Supreme Court issues notice to CentreThe petitioner, Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya, has contended that the wording of Section 62(5) of the Act used confinement as a yardstick to...
- Drinking alcohol is considered sin by Mahatma Gandhi, says Bihar CM Nitish KumarFurther he said that Mahatma Gandhi has also said that it is bad to drink alcohol and he who does not listen to Bapu is a great sinner. Law...
- Corporates join hands to help prisoners jailed without trialThe first phase of the initiative will look at helping secure bail for around 2,500 undertrials in Maharashtra, which has one of the larges...
- Activist writes to CM Devendra Fadnavis opposing 'early release' for Sanjay Dutt"If it happens, it would be a black day for the state, as Sanjay Dutt no way deserves an apology or remittance for his so-called good behav...
- Inform undertrials when they will be released: CICThe CIC order has come on the plea of an RTI applicant who had sought information from Tihar Jail authorities whether Undertrial Review Com...
- No discrimination against anyone on the basis of religion: GovernmentChaudhary said till Dec 2013, the total number of convicted prisoners were 1,29,608 and there were 2,78,503 undertrial prisoners in various...
- Laws dealing with undertrials in India are flawedFor the country as a whole, the number of undertrials detained for more than five years is lower than 2,000. With a cut-off of three years,...
- Gujarat releases 285 prisoners on Gandhi JayantiGujarat government today released 285 prisoners from various state jails on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary.
- Centre asks states to review cases of undertrialsThe advisory said although the percentage overcrowding in jails is steadily going down, even then 67% of the inmates in various prisons are...
- Over crowding in Tihar; HC issues notice to Centre, city govtThe Delhi HC issued notices to the Centre and the city government on a PIL on over-crowding in high-security Tihar Jail and seeking formula...
- Moily promises release of two lakh undertrialsThe saga of around 200,000 undertrials in jails across India may come to an end within six months.
- Prez poll: Tainted MPs could lose voteThe Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a PIL seeking direction to the Election Commission to bar jailed MPs and MLAs from casting votes i...
- Hingora, who supplied rifle to Dutt, gets 9 yrsA special court on Friday sentenced film producer Samir Hingora, who supplied an AK 56 rifle to actor Sanjay Dutt, to nine years’ in jail i...
- Five people get 3 years in jail for smuggling in RDXHanding over the first sentences in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, the Tada court on Friday awarded five persons three years’ rig...
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